Dermot Roantree
Dermot Roantree is content editor with Irish Jesuit Communications and he is also the editor of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. He has a doctorate in Modern History and many years of teaching and of e-learning projects behind him. He is married with two children.
On poetry and the sacred
October 2, 2024
DERMOT ROANTREE :: There are clear affinities between the disposition of the poet – and indeed the reader of poetry – and the attitude of people at prayer.
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Challenging prison policy
June 24, 2024
DERMOT ROANTREE (STUDIES) :: In criminal justice, the state must not intrude on the life of citizens any more than is needed to achieve a legitimate social purpose.
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Access to the arts as a human right
March 5, 2024
DERMOT ROANTREE :: The arts have a transformative power that makes them much more than a luxury in a democratic society.
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Seeking justice in this world
December 18, 2023
DERMOT ROANTREE :: Seeking justice in the here and now is integral to the Christian commitment to take the Gospel exhortations and promises seriously.
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Thinking ahead to Ireland’s future
March 7, 2023
DERMOT ROANTREE :: What kind of Ireland do we want in 2030? Many concrete issues need attention, but most of all we must ask from where we will draw our...
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On Heaney, home and homecoming
January 26, 2023
DERMOT ROANTREE [STUDIES] :: Seamus Heaney's modernism is defended from those who would see him as provincial, in a 1986 essay in Studies by Richard Kearney.
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The worldview of Vatican II
December 6, 2022
DERMOT ROANTREE :: The Second Vatican Council articulated an expansive worldview that drew on the deepest traditions of the Church.
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Hope for the future requires remembrance of the past
September 20, 2022
DERMOT ROANTREE :: Christian hope requires remembrance of the past – of the suffering of Christ, and so that of all victims.
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Nationalism and the Christian call to solidarity
June 7, 2022
DERMOT ROANTREE :: Attachment to one's nation should not entail a lessening of one's sense of belonging to wider humanity.
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The Pope and parrhesia
March 8, 2022
DERMOT ROANTREE :: With his frequent calls for Catholics to speak with 'parrhesia', Pope Francis is demonstrating a new way of being pope.
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